I. Climate Change is Reversible! (reason for hope)

Quite astounding: the top changes that will reverse it — not what most of us think. And very doable (the top measures start 9:05 min in).

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Ralph Nader, Paul Hawken , and the title: “Global Warming Is Reversible“)

II. Why is there no Left in America?

Economic Update: The Great American Purge

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Richard Wolff and the title: “Economic Update: The Great American Purge“)

III. Fascism (its crimes and source)

Pink Floyd Founder on Fascism

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Roger Waters, Dimitri Lascaris, and the title: “Roger Waters: Neoliberalism Is Fueling the Flames of Fascism (Pt 1/2)“)

Fighting Chevron for Justice

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Roger Waters: Neoliberalism Is Fueling the Flames of Fascism (Pt 2/2)“)

Fascism as Flattery

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Yuval Noah Harari and the title: “Why fascism is so tempting – and how your data could power it | Yuval Noah Harari“)

Comment: This thought aligns more or less with the summary I have gleaned from studying fascism, namely it having two main populations: (1) thugs running the show for personal gain of power and wealth, and (2) followers who join out of a hunger for a sense of belonging (to a group that accepts them when all others seem to turn away) and elevation (above others) or protection of their own personal privilege (no matter how small it is).

IV. Corporate Rule (U.S. lawlessness)

The U.S. of Lawlessness

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Ralph Nader and the title: “Institutionalizing Lawlessness: Systematically Subverting Markets“)

V. World Politics (Refugees, Russia, …)

The Refugee Caravan’s Home Country

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Dana Frank, Chris Hedges, and the title: “ON CONTACT: US Complicity in Honduras “)

Why Russia isn’t America’s Friend or Part of the EU

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for XXX, and the title: “Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin“)

The World’s Right & Left

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Progressive International: Yanis Varoufakis & Bernie Sanders Launch New Global Mvt Against Far Right“)

Comment: America’s capitalist dogma of “opportunity” is a grand fraud. Capitalism makes a few rich by making many poor. Do we really want an opportunity to get rich by making others poor? Is that truly our “moral” code or merely the personality disorder pushed down on us from above? Huge wealth and poverty are both caused by sociopathic greed. Without a functioning democracy all the gains of our economy will continue to be sucked to the top leaving the rest of us (the working us!!!) in drags.

Ref.: written and directed by Alex Gibney, produced by Blair Foster; whypoverty.net; Youtube-channel: The Why

VIII. DNC Attacks Free Speech

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore and the title: “DNC Threatens Press Freedom – Wikileaks Pushes Back Hard”)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Chris Hedges, Graham Elwood (The Political Vigilante), and the title: “Unity4J With Chris Hedges And Suzie Dawson — The Political Vigilante”)

14:08: people waking up (especially the young)

The Media Hive Mind :

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for David Doel, The Rational National, and the title: ” Macron’s Centrism: MSNBC Was Wrong, The Left Was Right”)

XIV. (Anti)-Doomsday Economics (MMT, Stephanie Kelton…)

Who profits from the lie that our government is financially bankrupt? The rich stealing public funds and evading taxes, that’s who. Is our government out of money? No! Rather, it’s all about spending for the people, communities, and our one and only planet, not against them:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for RJ Eskow and the title: “Stephanie Kelton on Anti-Doomsday Economics“)

XV. Humor: Reverse Racism

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Fear of a Brown Planet and the title: “Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) – Reverse Racism”)

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(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for The Jimmy Dore Show , and the title: “Why French Protestors Have 70% Approval From Citizens”)

Quote from the article: “We hear all the time that the US is the richest country on earth. Does it feel like that to you? Does it look like it when you hear of people dying because they cannot afford … medications? For proof, the media offers the stock market. Problem is, only a fraction of Americans actually have money in the stock market. Or a savings account. It’s hard to invest when you can barely pay rent and feed your family.”

The article suggest we are not ready yet in the U.S. ‘cause we are still too brainwashed, thinking that we are free, that mysterious market forces, immigrants, China, Russia, or personal failure is to blame for our pitiful situation. It’s a good read from a nurse (they see a lot of our misery, nurses do). I highly recommend it. Here is the link again.

As long as we keep letting ourselves be divided from above or believe the bullshit we are getting fed from above, we are paralyzed. The French seem to be ahead of us. Let’s move forward ourselves! Inform ourselves. Get a clue. Then act. And, yes, this here site can help you get informed. So better sign up for notifications of new posts.

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Gee… All I heard in the mainstream media was that stingy French people are raving in the street like little children over gas prices. Now things are slipping through that suggest something much, much bigger, something of truly HUGE import for every American and every human being alive!

Three brief videos capture it well. Here is the first clip, a street interview recorded in France:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for WeAreChange and the title: “Total Media Blackout! Paris Is Far Worse Than They Will Tell You!”)

Really captivating quote from this Frenchman in the street (slightly edited for clarity): “Don’t go for wishful thinking. Go for looking behind things, because it’s very clear that that’s what they (the oligarchs) want from us. They want us to go for wishful thinking so at the end of the line we are divided because we are not clear on what really is happening.”

So, is the people’s revolution which so many of us have been yearning for just around the corner? Is it already happening in France, with France as the model for the rest of the world? Can it happen without a people’s party or a well-structured people’s agenda? Is France spearheading the turning point? Let’s hear some more:

So, if the understanding and vision of the people is still insufficient to bring about the change we need, at least the momentum seems to have arrived, and the reaching out across traditional divides seems to be starting, at least in France for now, but perhaps unavoidably across the globe, including here in our beloved United States where we traditionally congratulate ourselves for our 18th century revolution which clearly didn’t go far enough, doing away with kings but not the robber barons. So, maybe we will live to see the final step sooner than we thought…

To conclude this little piece, I want to share one more short video. This one is from an American commenting exactly how I feel and think. I haven’t encountered him before, so I don’t know if I agree with him otherwise, but he really speaks for me in this brief video clip, and perhaps for you, too?

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for ramzpaul and the title: “The French yellow vest revolution”)

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Once again, this weekend time can be spent on enlightening videos rather than mass media trivia:

Without further ado (and no careful arrangement because of a family emergency), here they are:

(A) Rural America’s Oligarchy Takeover | (B) Legal Justice App

Big Money

Oligarchy vs Democracy at Work

Our Mass Extinction

Rethinking our Economy to Save Our World

Upcoming Economic Crash & Feudalism

Killing the Free Press

Media Corruption

Noam Chomsky 2018 Speech & Q&A

AOC, David Doel, our Broken System, & the Way Forward

The Evil Pharaonic Global Oligarchy

I. (A) Rural America’s Oligarchy Takeover | (B) Legal Justice App

Dirty money oligarchs have silently bought the state houses, county boards, judicial systems, and universities while the public focus was on Washington:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Hope From The Heartland/Robot Lawyer”)

~36 min: Access to justice via an app to find our way through the walls erected against us.

Quote (Nader addressing the inventor of the lawyer AI app): The dirty little secret in America is – just because the rules say equal justice under law, [and] the small claims courts say it’s easy to use and you don’t need a lawyer – … the vast majority of people are cheated, lied to, stolen from, have to swallow their grievances, and what you’re doing is providing a facility. And rights and remedies aren’t worth much without a facility to pursue or to promise to pursue the complaint in a court of law if the companies don’t settle.

Nader: “We’ve got to make our government more charitable and our big businesses more accountable to reflect the best angels, to use Lincoln’s phrase of the American people.”

II. Big Money

The yoke of Big Money in our lives and politics:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Is Republican Party Policy Leaving People With No Choice?”)

III. Oligarchy vs Democracy at Work

… starting 7:32 min in:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: Seattle Firm Converts to Worker Co-Op”)

IV. Our Mass Extinction

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Extinction Domino Effect That Could Annihilate Life on Earth Has Already Started”)

V. Rethinking our Economy to Save Our World

This interview starts out slow but, at 6:19 min in, it gets interesting (even when no practical suggestion is made how to realize this technological turn-around politically – a hint at the how-to finally comes in the sequel):

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs – but There Is an Alternative”)

Comment: Let’s think about this for a second. When our system declares corporations to be people, how can it simultaneously let them do whatever they want? We real people are always restricted so as not to harm other people, after all. There is a discrepancy in the all-out privileges and none-whatsoever duties of our corporations (who are, let’s not forget, only tools ans weapons wielded by the ridiculously rich who are also people but are likewise freed of obligations when the tools behind which they hide are).

Sequel:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs – but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 2/2)”)

Comment: It lifts my optimism that the Movement for a People’s Party is working on reviving the labor movement and in turn be strengthened by it. Working People of America re-unite!

VI. Upcoming Economic Crash & Feudalism

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Shrinking Difference Between Today’s Working Class and Feudal Serfs (w/ Prof Richard Wolff)”)

Comments:

Capitalism is nothing else but a modernized feudalism. Classical feudalism, in a mostly agricultural age, only used land as capital. Modern feudalism uses all kinds of capital. Hence it is called capitalism.

Classical feudalism wasn’t all that stable, either. There were many peasant revolts habitually concealed by historians (serving their masters like most bought and controlled politicians and academics). Plus there were endless wars over more land ownership by the feudal lords.

VII. Killing the Free Press

The parts most interesting to me are Abby Martin’s erudite exposure of the oligarchy’s effort to murder the very principle of a free press thus to better enslave us. These parts are the start and end of this clip. The conversation, in between, with Randy Credico and about Roger Stone doesn’t interest me much because I disbelieve the ridiculous propaganda and smear campaigns we – the people – are hammered with anyway when their abominable goals are so blatantly clear. It might be of interest to some visitors, though, who are interested in the details presented:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Randy Credico Exclusive Tell-All with Abby Martin on Wikileaks & Roger Stone”)

VIII. Media Corruption

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “CNN Fires Contributor For Telling Truth About Israel”)

IX. Noam Chomsky 2018 Speech & Q&A

Much on Nuclear war threat, some on climate change, good info on false diplomacy and befuddling of the American public regarding issues like Iran and Islam. The to me most interesting part is the Q&A session which starts around 50 minutes in:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Noam Chomsky – Best Speech In 2018”)

1:09:54: To me a most important point: since the neoliberal takeover (starting with Reagan), real wages have stagnated or declined while productivity has doubled. Another indication that at least half of the prosperity we produce goes to the super rich. It is loot we must reclaim to create a good life for all. Think about it. If all wages were doubled and the redistributed a little between very high and very low or absent (such as in the case of the hopelessly “unemployable” unemployed), there would be no more poverty or risk to fall into poverty in our country. Likewise, when doing this well, it would pull the carpet out from under the feet of money in politics.

X. AOC, David Doel, our Broken System, & the Way Forward

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Ocasio-Cortez Ignites Crowd In Climate Change Town Hall”)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Ocasio & Tlaib Expose D.C. Corruption At Orientation Event”)

XI. The Evil Pharaonic Global Oligarchy

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Chris Hedges Neoliberalisms Dark Path To Facism — The Political Vigilante”)

If you like being a peon, a serf, or a slave, by all means, continue on with business-as-usual. Your corporate overlords are delighted to exploit you. They’re thrilled at the prospect of profiting off your descendants for all eternity. But their hourglass is running out of sand. The planet’s ecosystems are collapsing. We will not last long as underlings. This is a paltry comfort as we slide toward mass extinction. … We must dare to ask – and answer – the question: who and what will replace the corporate overlords?

7:11 min: Capitalism tends to become fascism when it no longer has something to offer to most people.

11:37 min: The idea that anyone can make it, that the playing field is level, not everyone’s equal but they have equal opportunity has always been a lie; but it’s never more so than than now with the [gross] income inequality.

14:52 min: Originally, gun rights were never for all Americans. They were for autonomous settlers organizing themselves with a clear purpose to take land [from the Natives] and get rich.

15:36 min: The Second Amendment was simply a validation of what already existed: these [indian land grabbing] militias and the slave patrols.

Gist: Armed violent conquest of Indian lands and capturing escaped slaves are the roots of American gun culture and white supremacy. Add to that the fascism created by rich robber barons to save themselves from the anger of the aggravated population when capitalism fails the greater population, and you have a recipe for fascistic violence and takeover, or possibly even a horrid civil war with the continuers of land-conquest, slave patrols, gun violence, and white supremacy mentality (passed on through generations) being the ones most ready for violence and armed to the teeth thus causing a big threat to peace and the general population.

Perpetuation of our Historic White Supremecism

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Exposing the Daughters of the Confederacy (w/Guest Kali Holloway)”)

II. Oligarchy

The Global Oligarchy Giants

Following a conversation on U.S. policies nowadays blatantly violating international law and institutions originally promoted by the U.S. after WW II, this episode of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour becomes really interesting giving detailed insights into the very tip of the plutocratic oligarchy which imposes a global rule over all of us crossing all borders. I am sharing this video fast-forwarded to start at that point:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Who Controls the World’s Wealth?”)

Ten Years of Wall Street Partying

Wealth transfer from Main Street to Wall Street:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Endemic Market Failure and Inequality”)

Corporate Rule

… at the expense of the people. This interview starts out slow with stuff you surely already know, but it gets better over time with really powerful thoughts nearing the end:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Amazon Gets $3 Billion in NY Tax Breaks While Underfunded Public Transport Enters ‘Death Spiral’”)

GM’s Latest Evil

Time for GM Workers to Strike

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “So… do you still trust any large corporations or favor them to rule us?”)

And how the American People should respond (~half-way in):

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “GM Closing 5 Plants – Trump Has No Answers”)

Conclusion: No more tax gifts and corporate subsidies for free but with the condition for these corporations to become democratically run. (and/or in exchange for their stocks to put into the Social Security funds)

III. “Democratic” Party Games

Since the “Democratic” Party became the Republican Party #2 (with both of them betraying the American People to a ruling class), progressive candidates running within this party have found themselves alone out on a limb and pressured to come to heel or be marginalized. In 2016, Bernie Sanders was forced to quietly accept his being cheated out of the primaries, then having to endorse HRC and try to sheepdog people back into the party that had so blatantly revealed its Republican-like corruption. The question that naturally arises in many minds is if candidates running on a progressive ticket (officially siding with working class people) are being honest or merely pretending, or – if they are honest – whether or not they will withstand the party pressure.

Here are three videos which illuminate this issue:

Doubting AOC:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Ocasio-Cortez is a Progressive Fraud”)

Caveat: AOC is not only young but barely started. We can’t really know, yet, which way she will go. Still, this follows the “Democratic” Party’s co-opting pattern.

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Sam Seder, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”)

The Speaker of the House Game:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “House Democrats Betray Progressives”)

Discussion:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Dems Oppose Pelosi As Speaker – Demand Rule Change”)

Conclusion: The future of AOC is unclear. A new party is vitally necessary to add outside pressure to the progressive inside pressure on the “Democratic” Party in order to either (A) replace or reform D-politicians or (B) replace the D-Party when it refuses to bend to the will of the people.

IV. Immigration

What Caused the Refugee Caravan?

While Ben Swann is a bit controversal, my brief impression is that he is falsely smeared as conspiracy theorist or Russian agent in most disputed cases, and the below explanation about the trouble in Honduras seems to me to very well summarize important points I have come across before from sources I trust. Internal causes are largely left out, but the terrible outside influence is indeed responsible to a very large degree for the problems in Honduras. Imagine any country being raided, pillaged, and brutalized from aborad for a century. Wouldn’t that perpetuate and even create lots of internal problems? The fact is, human life in Honduras has become extremely pecarious, blocked, and endangered. People flee like you and I most likely would.

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Has U.S. Foreign Policy Created The Migrant Crisis in Honduras?”)

Immigration: an Economic Plus

At one point in this panel discussion from 2015, an economist argues firmly for immigration (I am sharing the video set to start playing this spot):

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Dying Europe Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015”)

V. World Politics: Venezuela

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Brazilian Invasion of Venezuela a “Very Serious” Threat”)

VI. Protesting for Change

Let’s learn from our peer countries that do have healthcare for all, unemployment protection, free higher education, and so forth:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “France Teaches World How To Protest Properly”)

https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/political-awakening-video-weekend-11-30-2018-16-videos/feed/1ddbeanstockCan we Trust our Government?https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/can-we-trust-our-government/
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This post shares two very enlightening videos about our oligarchic government lying to the public, committing crimes, mangling the Constitution, and maiming whistleblowers who let us know about it:

Here you can learn about the secret crimes against the public and against those who reveal them to us, and a lot more info — including the spooky origins of Google and what was really up with the Saudi-murdered establishment journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Intelligence Assessment with Kevin Shipp Whistleblowers Roundtable with Bill Binney & John Kiriakou ”)

Memorable Goethe quote: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

One caveat: The big problem with the official 9/11 story is how the buildings came down. Only a professional demolition with planted charges can explain the fast footprint collapse and pulverization. No mere fire on a single floor could get close to doing that. (check out www1.ae911truth.org on that and/or watch this 5 minute video)

U.S. Nefarious Persecution of Truthtellers Worldwide

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Exclusive: WikiLeaks Lawyer Warns U.S. Charges Against Assange Endanger Press Freedom Worldwide”)

Try and put this through your head: Imagine Russia were working hard to get extraditions of American journalists in order to incarcerate, prosecute, and possibly torture and kill them. Would we consider such extraditions correct?

So, even if you don’t believe in free speech rights and the need for a free press (informed by whistleblowers) that reveals government wrongdoings to the public so we can try and have a functioning democracy – even if you don’t believe in those democratic principles aligned with the truths propounded by our nation’s founders – can you really justify that any country on Earth kidnap and mistreat journalists from other countries? Don’t you realize this makes the United States a rogue nation terrorizing the entire globe?

Related information:

News – Julian Assange Having to Defend Against the New Ecuadorian Government

]]>https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/quickypinion-the-orange-distraction/feed/0ddbeanstockPolitical Awakening Video Weekend 11-24-2018 (18 videos)https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/political-awakening-video-weekend-11-24-2018-18-videos/
https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/political-awakening-video-weekend-11-24-2018-18-videos/#respondFri, 23 Nov 2018 23:08:12 +0000http://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com/?p=7040Continue reading Political Awakening Video Weekend 11-24-2018 (18 videos)]]>A lot of knowledge, news, and insight on the economy, our oligarchy, our elections, world politics, the political gamesmanship, and a powerful video on how people slip into violent right-wing fascism and can find their way out again. Themes:

System: The End of Kings (then and now)

Neoliberalism (cont. fr. last week)

Fake Charity & Fake Leaders’ Mentality

Economic Update

Capitalism: Our market can and must be modified

Currency Wars

Corporate Dictatorship (e.g. Amazon)

Elections (Voting Parody, Midterms, Fraud)

Political Action: Bernie Pressure

World Politics (Israel, Nazi Germany’s Mindset, Russia Mania)

Immigration/Asylum (The Caravan & Asylum Blockade)

The Political Slander Game

Lost in Right-Wing Fascism But Then Getting Out

I. System: The End of Kings (then and now)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The End of Kings“)

II. Neoliberalism (cont. fr. Last Week)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “ON CONTACT: A History of Neoliberalism, Part 2“)

III. Fake Charity & Fake Leaders’ Mentality

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Anand Giridharadas, “Winners Take All””)

IV. Economic Update

Half the Chinese companies are American corporation subsidies. American farmers are being gravely hurt by the trade war with China. Italy’s new government tries to switch to our living-on-credit economy, failure-proven as it is (put corrupticians tend to go for the after-me-the-flood tactic). Lotteries are a (wasteful) form of taxation (and actually symbolic for our capitalist lottery of life). Successful undergraduate union. Talk with David Harvey: new podcast project (“Anti-Capitalism Chronicles” on iTunes, GooglePlay and at democracyatwork.info/acc), tyranny of a minority over the majority, gridlock gov, new (precarious) exploited working class that needs to organize…

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: U.S. Midterm Elections“)

Comment: The midterm elections, as expected, maintained the show of the R & D gridlock on which the olifarchy has so long based its unopposed rule (a gridlocked government can’t oppose them, which gives both bought major parties a out of jail free card with the public).

V. Capitalism: Our market can and must be modified

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “We Can—And Must—Reform Capitalism“)

VI. Currency Wars

Follow the Money: U.S. – Middle East Relations:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “‘Petrodollar’ Exposed: The Root of Special US-Saudi Relationship“)

More Current Currency Wars:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “World Dumping US Debt & Hoarding Gold: De-dollarization Explained“)

VII. Corporate Dictatorship (e.g. Amazon)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Stacy Mitchell on Amazon: The 21st Century Railroad Baron“)

VIII. Elections (Voting Parody, Midterms, Fraud)

Voting Parody:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “HOW TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS, according to liberals PARODY”)

Note: I heard that Carey Wedler has since been banished by Twitter. Maybe I’ll now get banished on Facebook, Twitter, and such, too, for sharing this video? We’ll see. (Do sign up for free updates from this site to be safe!)

Redacted Tonight on the Midterms:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “~219~ Hidden TRUTH About The Midterms, War In Space, Fascism Good For Economy“)

Election Fraud:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Election Supervisor In Florida Resigns Amidst Huge Controversy“)

X. World Politics (Israel, Nazi Germany’s Mindset, Russia Mania)

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Empire Files: Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé – “I Was the Terrorist”“)

Group-think (such as tribal thinking) can turn people evil:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Sonke Neitzel: Mindset of WWII German Soldiers“)

Comment: So, just like Wehrmacht soldiers were made to think that raping women was an OK everyday thing to do, Americans who fall into the right-wing trap can think that separating children from their “illegal” parents, police killing unarmed Afro-Americans (but also others) in the streets or their homes, or condemning working Americans to poverty and blaming them for it, is all an OK everyday thing to do as well. And even wider circles of Americans have been made to think that waging unprovoked war on countless nations and civilians all over the globe is likewise OK an everyday thing to do, with the added bonus of some arms industry jobs (that could instead of sophisticated murder weapons produce a healthy infrastructure, useful peacetime robots, and so forth).

Russiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Coolest Look Ever at US-Russia relations“)

XI. Immigration/Asylum (The Caravan & Asylum Blockade)

I am sharing this video with a fast forward to the point where it gets most interesting (the prior stuff most of us probably know):

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “ICE Holds Record Number of Immigrants, Including 14,000 Children“)

Gist: (1) Trump’s anti-asylum order itself forces refugees to cross the border “illegally” and then be denied asylum because they did what they were forced to do. (2) The reason for flight from Honduras is the U.S. terrorism on their country (most recently under Obama and Hillary Clinton).

XII. The Political Slander Game

… believed by people who don’t think for themselves (for example shaming AOC for having been too poor as a worker to now march into Washington like one of the rich boys and girls, or pretending we couldn’t use our tax money for universal healthcare instead of wasting it on an overblown war (a.k.a. “defense”) budget that cannot even account for trillions of its spending):

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Ana Kasparian Schools Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Critics“)

XIII. Lost in Right-Wing Fascism But Then Getting Out

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement – and how I got out | Christian Picciolini”)

Comment: I shared this earlier this week in my Thanksgiving post but am sharing it again here in case you missed it.

As Thanksgiving is coming up and many of us hopefully manage to team up with family or friends, awkward tensions over political issues may arise. Therefore, today I share articles, mini-pieces, and videos to prepare you well.

On Thanksgiving we meet to celebrate our communal connections, our sense of belonging, the things we either have or hope to have some day, or a famous past that we profit from in the present — such as past inventions, medical developments, economic and political developments… uh, oh… maybe not the latter… It may be worth to take a look at a path towards a Good Life for All or at issues that cause tension in our families or circles of friends, and a possible way to resolve them constructively.

For this purpose, I today share links to:

prior Thanksgiving posts worth revisiting and

some videos that may help in overcoming tensions with our fellow celebrants

I. Major Articles

A Beautiful Future (Happy Thanksgiving) — (2017-11-23)“Imagine a future free from financial worry, free to be who we really are, free to grow inside, free to enjoy life.” — This seems to me one of my best articles ever. It amazed me when I reread it just now. It explains how we may end financial insecurity in our country, allowing all of us a life without anxiety and giving us many options we never had before.

Thanksgiving, What Thanksgiving? — (2016-11-26)“I’ve long found the placement of our big national elections right between Halloween and Thanksgiving quite ironic. First we open up with a show of monsters. Then we vote for some of them. And finally, we are given a little time off from our drudgery to be thankful for it all.”

II. Brief Pieces

If you want to arm yourself for tough discussions with quick insightful mini-articles, you can check out my QuickyPinions.

III. Video Compilation

Video Weekend 11-25-2017 (12 Videos)“Twelve great videos befitting our Thanksgiving week. The first is a report on the current GOP tax scam and the near future our oligarchs are planning for us. Ack! The other 11 videos are thoughts from around the world about the UBI portion of the great future we must fight for.”

IV. More Videos

1. Lost in Right-Wing Fascism But Then Getting Out

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement – and how I got out | Christian Picciolini”)

2. Even monkeys can overcome cruelty and shift to peace and prosperity for All

Man, if baboons can do this, shame on us if we don’t:

(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)”)

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